Information gleaned from a recent Freedom of Information request to UK local authorities regarding complaints about the condition of residential and industrial buiildings and land it emerged that Oldham has seen a huge increase in…
The largest industry group in 2015 is professional, scientific & technical, with 17.8% of all registered UK businesses compared with 17.3% in 2014. Eight of the ten Greater Manchester local authority areas have more professional,…
In 2006 there were 21,000 Oldham children and 69,000 Oldham adults living in households where all adults worked, by 2014 that number had dropped to 19,000 children and 55,000 adults. In 2006 Oldham ranked 62nd…
Oldham Council are getting ready once again to cut budgets but are allocating more council funds to squander on development costs for the new Coliseum & heritage centre planned for Union Street after their Arts…
Hypocrite Labour Oldham leader Jim McMahon stated at the Labour Party Conference this week that “Devolution is a Labour value It’s about distributing power from the powerful to the people” yet Mr McMahon was openly…
Oldham continues to miss out on the changing face of the economy as professional, scientific, technical employment increased by 18.3% between 2009-2014 and business administration & support services grew by 18.2% whilst Oldham Council’s chosen…
Oldham continues to top the universal credit claimant figures in the month to August 13th with the highest number of new claimants, the Department for Work & Pensions states “The Jobcentre Plus office with the…
Oldham Council is to re-name Cromwell Street, Oldham as University Way, the Council states “This to reflect the Council’s ambitions to create a “Campus Oldham” approach to the area stretching from the Regional Science Centre…
After a submission from Regenda Homes Oldham Council has decided that for twelve months 80% of social housing lets in Limehurst will be for people who meet the WorkingXtra criteria which is: one person must…
On the 24th of August Oldham Council announced they were “installing around 1 megawatt (MW) of solar photovoltaic (PV) equipment on a first tranche of Council-owned assets, as a first stage of the Generation Oldham…
On the day we found out that net migration to the UK has reached a record unsustainable high of 330,000 in a year we also saw that since the first year (2014) that working and benefit…
The Economist/ Ipsos MORI August 2015 Issues index – concern about immigration is at the highest level ever recorded – half of the public now list it as a concern. Bobby Duffy, Managing Director of…
Oldham’s former Butterfly’s nightclub on King St is set to make way for a 126 apartment residential & retail development if a property developer can be found after the site was aquired by Millerbrook Properties Limited…
The Association of Greater Manchester Authorities (AGMA) Integrated Assessment report for Greater Manchester Spatial Framework released in July used ONS population projections from 2012/13 already proven to be inaccurate at the time this report was…
In his latest blog the Oldham Labour leader says Greater Manchester needs to build 10,000 homes a year instead of 4,000 but forgets to mention net annual international migrant inflow is 8,654. He also fails…